---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides for health insurance policy coverage of incarcerated persons prior to adjudication. (8/1/18)"
description: "HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides for health insurance policy coverage of incarcerated persons prior to adjudication. (8/1/18)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 272"
citation: "Louisiana SB 272 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John R. Smith"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e077fb1f-0aa2-4562-b865-4ab23c90814e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=233728"
source_hash: "1b9998a90c790ad6f54f5016dfbdadad897a7e639b8bd39221df743c15269f23"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---

# Louisiana SB 272 (2018) — HEALTH/ACC INSURANCE: Provides for health insurance policy coverage of incarcerated persons prior to adjudication. (8/1/18)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SB272 Original** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1071177)
2. **House Floor Amendment, #2877, Talbot, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1086497)
3. **SB272 Act 20** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1092568)
4. **SB272 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074834)
5. **SB272 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1077129)
6. **Senate Committee Amendment, #891, INS, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1074793)
7. **Senate Floor Amendment, #1222, Smith, J., Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1076820)
8. **SB272 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1087700)

## Votes

- CONCUR (#419) — **35–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#96) — **32–0** (pass) · legislature
- FINAL PASSAGE (#459) — **93–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- John R. Smith — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-04-28** Effective date 8/1/2018.
- **2018-04-28** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 20. `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-23** Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate on 4/19/2018. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-19** Signed by the Speaker of the House.
- **2018-04-18** Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2018-04-17** Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays.
- **2018-04-16** Received from the House with amendments.
- **2018-04-16** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2018-04-06** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/16/18.
- **2018-04-06** Read by title, passed to 3rd reading.
- **2018-04-05** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
- **2018-04-04** Reported favorably (10-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2018-03-22** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
- **2018-03-20** Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2018-03-20** Called from the Calendar.
- **2018-03-19** Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call.
- **2018-03-15** Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
- **2018-03-14** Reported with amendments.
- **2018-03-12** Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Insurance. `filing, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e077fb1f-0aa2-4562-b865-4ab23c90814e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).